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“To make God responsible for everything is to make humanity responsible for nothing, which is to make human existence meaningless, which is to make God's judgement of our existence meaningless, which is to make God's existence meaningless.”
― Nolen Gertz, Nihilism

“I think there is a general misconception that you write poems because you “have something to say.” I think, actually, that you write poems because you have something echoing around in the bone-dome of your skull that you cannot say. Poetry allows us to hold many related tangential notions in very close orbit around each other at the same time. The “unsayable” thing at the center of the poem becomes visible to the poet and reader in the same way that dark matter becomes visible to the astrophysicist. You can’t see it, but by measure of its effect on the visible, it can become so precise a silhouette you can almost know it.”
― Rebecca Lindenberg

“We try to live lives that are contrary to life.”
― Nolen Gertz, Nihilism

“My heart is a thin thing, these days - shred of paper blown between the spaces in my ribs.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea